List of Justice Ministers of France

This page is a list of French justice ministers.

Under the "ancien régime", the French minister responsible for the judiciary was the Chancellor of France. The Chancellor was responsible for seeing that royal decrees were registered by the various Parlements of the realm. However, as the Chancellor was appointed for life, and might fall from favour, or be too ill to carry out his duties, at times the duties were carried out by a deputy, the Keeper of the Seals of France. The last Chancellor died in 1790, by which time the French Revolution was well underway, and was not replaced. Instead, in 1791, the Keeper of the Seals was given the additional title of Minister of Justice. (The title is also still kept by the Minister of Justice, in the form of "Keeper of the seals".)

Chancellors of France to 1699

* 989 - 991 : Renaud de Vendôme, bishop of Paris
* 991 - 998 : Gerbert d’Aurillac, later Pope Sylvester II
* 998 - 1005 : Roger de Blois
* 1005 - 1015 : Francon
* 1018 : Arnoul, archbishop of Tours
* 1030 - c.1059 : Baldwin
* 1059 - 1067 : Gervais de Château-du-Loir, bishop of Le Mans
* 1067 - 1073 : Pierre de Loiselève
* 1073 : Guillaume
* 1074 - 1080 : Roger II, bishop of Beauvais
* 1074 - 1085 : Geoffroy de Boulogne, bishop of Paris
* 1085 - 1090 : Gilbert
* 1090 : Ourson or Ursion, bishop of Senlis
* 1091 - 1092 : Hubert, bishop of Senlis
* 1094 - 1106 : Gilbert
* 1106 - 1118 : Étienne de Senlis, bishop of Paris
* 1118 - 1127 : Étienne de Garlande
* 1127 - 1132 : Simon
* 1132 - 1137 : Étienne de Garlande
* 1137 - 1140 : Algrin
* 1140 : Noël, abbot of Rebais
* 1140 - 1147 : Cadurc
* 1147 - 1149 : Barthélemy
* 1150 : Simon
* 1150 - 1172 : Hugues de Champfleury, bishop of Soissons
* 1179 - 1185 : Hugues du Puiset
* 1203 - 1227 : Guérin, monk and bishop of Senlis
* 1227 - 1231 : Philippe d’Antogny
* 1231 - 1236 : Aubry Cornu
* 1236 - 1244 : Jean de la Cour
* 1244 - 1249 : Nicolas Le Chien,
* 1249 - 1252 : Gilles, archbishop of Tyros
* 1252 - 1259 : Raoul de Grosparmy
* avant 1260 : Guy Faucoi, later Pope Clement IV
* 1259 - 1261 : Simon de Brie, later Pope Martin IV
* 1262 - 1270 : Philippe de Cahors, prior of Saint-Frambaud de Senlis
* 1270 : Guillaume de Rampillon, archdeacon of Paris
* 1270 : Guillaume de Chartres, Dominican monk
* 1271 - 1273 : Pierre Barbet
* 1273 - 1282 : Henri de Vézélay
* 1282 - 1290 : Pierre Chalon
* 1291 - 1292 : Jean de Vassoigne
* 1293 - 1296 : Guillaume de Crépy
* 1296 - 1297 : Thibaut de Pouancé, bishop of Dol
* 1297 - 1302 : Pierre Flote, knight
* 1302 - 1304 : Étienne de Suizy
* 1304 - 1306 : Pierre de Mornay, bishop of Auxerre
* 1306 : Pierre de Grez
* 1306 - 1307 : Pierre de Belleperche, bishop of Auxerre
* 1307 - 1310 : Guillaume de Nogaret, knight
* 1310 - 1311 : Gilles Aycelin de Montaigu, archbishop of Narbonne
* 1311 - 1313 : Guillaume de Nogaret
* 1313 - 1314 : Pierre de Latilly, bishop of Châlons
* 1314 - 1316 : Étienne de Mornay
* 1316 : Pierre d’Arabloy
* 1317 - 1321 : Pierre de Chappes
* 1320 - 1321 : Jean de Cherchemont
* 1321 - 1323 : Pierre Rodier
* 1323 - 1328 : Jean de Cherchemont
* 1328 - 1329 : Mathieu Ferrand
* 1329 : Jean de Marigny, bishop of Beauvais
* 1329 - 1334 : Guillaume de Saint-Maure
* 1334 : Roger, bishop of Arras, later pope Clement VI
* 1335 - 1338 : Guy Baudet, bishop of Langres
* 1338 - 1339 : Étienne de Vissac, knight
* 1339 - 1347 : Guillaume Flote
* 1347 - 1349 : Firmin de Coquerel, bishop of Noyon
* 1349 - 1357 : Pierre de la Forest, archbishop of Rouen
* 1357 - 1358 : Gilles Aycelin de Montaigut, bishop of Thérouanne
* 1357 - 1359 : Foulques Bardoul, bishop of Avranches
* 1358 : Jean de Dormans, bishop of Lisieux
* 1359 - 1361 : Pierre de la Forest, cardinal, archbishop of Rouen
* 1361 : Gilles Aycelin de Montaigut, bishop of Thérouanne
* 18 September 1361 - 1372 : Jean de Dormans, bishop of Lisieux
* 1372 - 1373 : Guillaume de Dormans
* 1373 : Jean de Dormans,
* 20 November 1373 - 1380 : Pierre d'Orgemont (First President of the Parlement de Paris) [The only chancellor to have been elected by an assembly gathered by Charles V.]
* October 1380 - 1383 : Miles de Dormans, bishop of Beauvais
* 1383 - décembre 1388 : Pierre de Giac
* décembre 1388 - 1398 : Arnaud de Corbie
* 1398 - 1400 : Nicolas du Bosc, bishop of Bayeux
* 1400 - 1405 : Arnaud de Corbie
* 1405 - 1413 : Jean de Montagu, archbishop of Sens
* 1409 - 8 August 1413 : Arnaud de Corbie
* 1413 : Eustache de Laistre
* août 1413 - 29 May 1418 : Henri de Marle (-1418)
* 1418 : Robert Le Maçon
* 1418 - 1420 : Eustache de Laistre
* 1419 - 1421 : Robert Le Maçon
* 1420 - 1424 : Jean Le Clerc, Burgundian party
* 1421 - 1425 : Martin Gouge, bishop of Clermont, Charles VII's faction
* 1424 - 1435 : Louis de Luxembourg, bishop of Thérouanne, Burgundian party
* 1425 - 1445 : Renault de Chartres, archbishop of Reims, Charles VII's factions
* 1445 - 1461 : Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins
* 1461 - 1465 : Pierre de Morvilliers
* 1465 - 1472 : Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins
* 1472 - 1483 : Pierre Doriole
* 1483 - 12 Augsut 1492 : Guillaume de Rochefort
* 1492 - November 1494 : Adam Fumée
* August 1495 - 1497 : Guillaume Briçonnet, archbishop of Reims
* 1497 - 1507/1508 : Guy de Rochefort
* 1508 - 1512 : Jean de Ganay
* 1515 - 1535 : Antoine Duprat, cardinal, archishop of Sens and bishop of Albi.
* 1535 - 1538 : Antoine du Bourg
* 1538 - 1545 : Guillaume Poyet
* 1545 - 1560 : François Olivier
* 1560 - 1568 : Michel de l'Hospital
* 1568 - 1571 : Jean de Morvilliers, bishop of Orléans
* 1573 - 1583 : René de Birague, cardinal
* 1583 - 1599 : Philippe Hurault, comte de Cheverny
* 2 August 1599 - 9 September 1607 : Pomponne de Bellièvre
* 10 September 1607 - 1 October 1624 : Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery
* 3 October 1624 - 11 December 1635 : Étienne Ier d'Aligre
* 19 December 1635 - 28 January 1672 : Pierre Séguier
* 8 January 1674 - 28 October 1677 : Étienne II d'Aligre
* 29 October 1677 - 30 October 1685 : Michel Le Tellier
* 1 November1685 - 2 September 1699 : Louis Boucherat, comte de Compans

Chancellors of France

Free French Commissioners for Justice, 1941-1944

Ministers of Justice, 1944-present

Notes